"The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone."
— Epitaphs

January 1, 1970

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Samuel Wesley, Epigrams. On Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 235.